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Ted Manos M.D.
Dr. Manos was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and his father Manuel (Big Mike) Manos served in the European Theater of U.S. Army from 1942 through the end of combat operations in late 1945 as a non-commissi...view moreDr. Manos was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and his father Manuel (Big Mike) Manos served in the European Theater of U.S. Army from 1942 through the end of combat operations in late 1945 as a non-commissioned officer in Army Intelligence. Mr. Manos was born in Stanford, Connecticut in 1920 and is a surviving veteran of WWII.
Mr. Manos was offered a professional baseball contract by the Chattanooga Lookouts but, instead, joined The New York City Police Department and remained there for twenty years as a patrolman from 1947-1967.
Dr. Manos' mother, Frieda was a housekeeper and a seamstress in the garment industry. Born on the Greek island of Crete, she emigrated to the U.S. at the age of four and followed her coal miner father living in West Virginia and Utah.
Dr. Manos first married in 1966 and adopted three children. After a divorce in 2001, he married to his wife, Rebecca and is stepfather to two adult children and stepgrandfather to three little girls.
Dr Manos played high school baseball and basketball at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and was a member of the National Honor Society and received a BA degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1964. He played baseball at Wesleyan for all four years and two years of basketball.
He entered The Albany Medical College in 1966 and graduated with an MD degree in 1970. Interned at Hartford Hospital in 1970-71 then was in the U.S. Navy for five years doing an Obstetrics and Gynecologic residency after one year as a General Medical Officer. He was a medical officer at Naval Hospital Boston, Naval Regional Medical Center Portsmouth Virginia and Naval Regional Medical Center, Orlando Florida.
Left the Navy in 1976 and was Board Certified in OB-GYN 1977 and had a solo private practice in Winter Park, Florida until 1999 then worked for Florida Hospital Waterman, in Tavares, Fl and the Lake County of Florida Health Department supervising midwives and doing obstetrical hospital services.
Dr. Manos retired in May 2014.
In October 1983 he attended the first Los Angeles Dodgers Adult Baseball Camp in Vero, Beach, Florida. He attended again in 1984 and 1986. Honored with Most Valuable Player Award in 1986 and a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers Adult Fantasy Camp Hall of Fame.view less